Special:Badtitle/NS90:Milestone-Proposal talk:ASCII MIlestone - IEEE NJ Coast Section/Possible addition to citation

From IEEE Milestones Wiki
Revision as of 16:23, 25 June 2014 by Allisonmarsh (talk | contribs) (New thread: Possible addition to citation)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

I think the recognition of ASCII is a worthy milestone, but I was wondering if you can put more of the "why it's important" stuff in the citation.


ASCII is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the Latin alphabet. Work on ASCII standard began with the first meeting of the American Standards Association (ASA) X3.2 subcommittee and the first edition of the standard was published during 1963. Compared to earlier telegraph codes, ASCII allowed for more convenient alphabetizing of lists. ASCII was the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by the ASCII-derived UTF-8.